Being a top prospect in the Mets organization, it isn’t a shock that Smith would be ranked in the top 30 going into the 2017 season. Here’s what Keith Law had to say about the budding first baseman:
I’ve written since Smith was an amateur that he has raw power, but in his first two seasons in full-season ball he hit just seven homers, as playing his home games in very pitcher-friendly parks led him to focus on going the other way. In 2016, he started pulling the ball more, and hit 14 homers, more than doubling his career total to date, along with 29 doubles to finish with a .